🍿 Disney's latest remake falls flat in PETER PAN & WENDY. A charmless and shallow attempt at rewriting a classic, this film's attempt to empower female characters comes across as pandering. | ✍️ ColleenMoz
is a puzzlingly bland take on one of the liveliest children’s stories of all time. The film’s implicit justification of its own existence lies in its attempt to rewrite some of the 1904 source material’s more problematic elements, but this ham-fisted effort results in a rather charmless if inoffensive tale. As the title might suggest, much of this revision goes toward transforming the female lead, Wendy Darling, into a girl boss, complete with kickass sword-fighting skills.
The female characters are not the only ones flattened by the film’s clumsy revamps. Jude Law makes for a decidedly mopey Captain Hook, drained of his campy villainy in favor of a tragic backstory to explain why he’s so mean. By the same token, Peter Pan himself, stripped of almost all his callous mischief, ends the film apologizing for “being a bad friend.
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